Review of All Things Visible and Invisible by P.C. Donan
Reviewed by A.C. Haury
Overall Rating: 4/5 stars
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Print Length:80 pages
- Language: English
- Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSXTTZU/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
Synopsis:
Lieutenant Nick Bayan meets Julie Earharth at a party and instantly falls in love with her. A few months later they marry and she gets pregnant. He deploys to Afghanistan where things did not go so well during his first mission. Talking about the fog of war is different from experiencing the fog for war. He goes home for the birth of his child and his nightmare begins to surface. When he returns to Afghanistan to finish his deployment, he begins to fall apart, consumed, and haunted by what he did. He comes home a broken man searching for salvation, redemption, and love. It is a soldier’s search for all things visible and invisible.
Review by A.C. Haury
I fell in love with the prose of this book. It is a beautiful, tragic and redemptive story with very real themes throughout the book. The intensity and emotion felt in Donan's novella is quite real. While the story is great, the prose is exceptional. The novella is written in a very poetic prose and I drunk in the words like a fine wine. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because it could benefit from a proofreader, but overall, I thought this was an outstanding read and I would certainly recommend it to other readers.
Lieutenant Nick Bayan meets Julie Earharth at a party and instantly falls in love with her. A few months later they marry and she gets pregnant. He deploys to Afghanistan where things did not go so well during his first mission. Talking about the fog of war is different from experiencing the fog for war. He goes home for the birth of his child and his nightmare begins to surface. When he returns to Afghanistan to finish his deployment, he begins to fall apart, consumed, and haunted by what he did. He comes home a broken man searching for salvation, redemption, and love. It is a soldier’s search for all things visible and invisible.
Review by A.C. Haury
I fell in love with the prose of this book. It is a beautiful, tragic and redemptive story with very real themes throughout the book. The intensity and emotion felt in Donan's novella is quite real. While the story is great, the prose is exceptional. The novella is written in a very poetic prose and I drunk in the words like a fine wine. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because it could benefit from a proofreader, but overall, I thought this was an outstanding read and I would certainly recommend it to other readers.
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